Sunday, April 28, 2013

ZBGNW BRZZNSK AT IT AGAIN

Mr.
K.L. brought this to my attention, and as we’re all bankster-watching
and Germany-Europe-watching, it’s worth commenting upon. It seems that
Rockefailure lap-poodle and sock puppet, and former National Security
Advisor to President Peanut….er….Carter, Mr. Zbgnw Brzznsk (try it,
you’ll like it, it just rolls off the tongue, a pleasure to
pronounce, a wonder to experience), is at it again, and this time it’s a
doozie, for it seems the old guy may be suffering from a momentary bout
of sanity and humanity:Brzezinski: EU-US trade pact can halt West’s decline
Say what? Say that again? Zbgnw Brzznsk said what?

“He recalled drinking a beer in the Slovak capital with
Czech artist-politician Vaclav Havel shortly after the fall of the Iron
Curtain and having ‘a kind of exuberant feeling’ about the future of
Europe and the emergence of the US as a benign superpower.
“But he said Europe failed to fulfil its promise, while the US weakened itself by invading Iraq.
“Europe’s main problem is that today’s European Union is a Europe
more of banks than of people, more of commercial convenience than an
emotional commitment of the European peoples,” he said.
“He criticised the UK for putting the interests of The City above all
else. He said some eastern countries treat the EU as “a piggy bank” of
subsidies, while “complacent” and “self-indulgent” southern countries’
top priority is to get bailouts from the north.
“‘In Western Europe today, there is a dearth of historical
imagination and of global ambition. There is no Churchill, no De Gaulle,
no Adenauer. Current political discourse is dominated by narrow
perspectives,’ he noted, referring to Europe’s post-WWII political
giants.
“‘Europe’s lack of global ambition makes for excessive reliance on
America [as a security provider] and makes the American public more
sceptical of Europe,’ he added.
“On the US side, he said the $3 trillion Iraq war hobbled its economy and delegitimised its authority.
“‘Just think of the recent UN vote on Palestine’s status … The
Americans organised a worldwide diplomatic effort to prevent it from
happening and out of 190 countries, it gained seven supporters,’ he
said.

Did Zbignw, Tin Man that he is, suddenly find a heart; did the man behind the curtain give him a brain?
Hardly. This is, after all, the man who wrote Between Two Ages and The Grand Chessboard,
whose cold-blooded geopolitical technocratic prose truly has to be read
to be believed. He does have it right in part: America’s post-9/11 “war
on everyone who smells like a terrorist” has meant a vast expansion of
America’s military presence in Central Asia and the Middle East, all an
effort, we are reminded in The Grand Chessboard, to control the
vast resources of Central Asia and to deny them to China and Russia.
Is the EU primarily about the banksters and for the banksters? Well, of
course it is. And are U.S. policies and actions increasingly the cause
of the lack of any real friends? Well, of course they are. Are people
getting fed up? Well, ask Australia and France: both countries recently
concluded agreements with China to conduct trade with each other
by-passing the dollar completely, and using direct convertibility. After
the financial scandals rocking the City of London and Wall Street, can
you blame them?
Thus, Brzznsk’s tears are crocodile tears, for his is the basic
policy that is being followed. He may quibble about this or that detail,
but it is nonetheless his basic policy (along with Samuel Huntington
and a few others).
Which brings us to Brzznsk’s latest brain child:

“In the context of China’s growing economic and military
power, he said the creation of an EU-US free trade zone could revive
trans-Atlantic relations and create a new geopolitical equilibrium.
“‘There is enormous promise in that concept,’ he said.
“‘It can create additional trans-Atlantic bonds … It can shape a new
balance between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceanic regions, while at
the same time generating in the West a new vitality, more security and
greater cohesion,’ he added.”

Uh huh…. we believe you Zbg, we really do.
Oh…and don’t forget:

“Noting that the European Commission will in future be
able to veto member states’ national budgets under the so-called
European Semester laws, he said: “The commission in its history never
had more power than it has now.”
“But he wondered what will happen when Brussels tries to wield its new instruments.
“‘In September or October, the commission will send letters to
Estonia or to France saying: ‘Show us your budgets. We want to see them
first to see if they’re sustainable.’ Then we will have to have a
conversation on how to combine this deeper integration with democratic
scrutiny,’ he said.
“‘When I present this to the Bundestag … people might say: ‘Who is this man from Brussels telling us what to do?’, he noted.”

There it is, the cat is out of the bag: the real problem is the
tug-of-war that’s been quietly going on between London and Wall Street
on the one hand, and Berlin and Frankfurt on the other. The problem is,
to recall Brrznsk’s own words, how to deal with the reality of German
power. Perhaps the way to deal with it is to create a trading bloc, and
gradually have Brussels chip away at American sovereignty too, so that,
with American power backing it up, Brussels can indeed dictate to
Berlin.
It’s all about that Gold Thing again folks, and Germany’s careful
diplomatic tightrope walk over the past few years, and about the
emergence of the BRICSA nations.
The problem will be selling this, not to the European oligarchs,
after all, they’re as corrupt if not more so than the ones in London and
New York. The real problem will be selling it to the average
German, Frenchman, Italian, Briton, or Spaniard. Europe doesn’t want to
be the world’s policeman, and has grown immensely suspicious of
America’s real reasons for doing so.
It ultimately won’t fly, which is what we would expect of any
ironclad aircraft designed by Zbg… after all, look how well his idea of
dominating central Asia has worked out so far…